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HALS, FRANS, the elder, born in Antwerp in 1584, died in Haarlem, Aug. 26, 1666. Dutch school; portrait and genre painter of great renown; pupil of Karel Van Mander. A most influential teacher and founder of a national style, and a portrait painter to be ranked with the greatest masters. Addicted to drunkenness, according to Houbraken, he was never prosperous, despite his long and active life and his unusual talent, which excited Van Dyck's admiration. In 1664, reduced to sheer want, he was supported by the municipality and pensioned. Flesh-colouring unequalled; handling broad, masterly, and vigourous. Pictures unequal in merit; his immense facility sometimes led him to be careless and sketchy. Works: Joh. Bogardus (1614); Banquet of Officers (1616), do. (1627), do. (1627), Assembly of Officers (1633), Officers of St. George's Guild (1639), Regents of St. Elizabeth's Hospital (1641), Regents of Old Men's Hospital (1664), do. (1664), Haarlem Museum; portrait of himself and his second wife (1624), The Fool (1625), Jolly Toper (1630), Old Lady (1639), Museum, Amsterdam; Archery-piece (1637), City Hall, ib.; Portrait of John Barclay (before 1610), Athenæum, ib.; Male Portrait (1655), Six Collection, ib.; do., Rotterdam Museum; Portraits of Dutch Nobleman and Wife (1625), Hague Museum; Male Portrait, do. (1645), Museum, Brussels; Singing Boys, Merry Tippler, Arenberg Gallery, ib.; De Strandlooper van Haarlem (1640), Male Portrait (1635), do. (1640), Antwerp Museum; Laughing Girl (1630), Portrait of a Lady, Portraits (3) of Beresteyn Family (1629, 1630), Louvre, Paris; Topers, Male and Female Portrait, Rothan Gallery, ib.; Male Portrait (1626), Old Lady, Young Lady (1634), Buffoon, Laughing Girl (1635), Rommelpotspeeler, Man and Wife (1638), do. (1643), Count Mniszech, ib.; Laughing Girl (1645), Lille Museum; Male Portrait (1632), Bordeaux Museum; Singing Boy (1625), Male Portraits (1625, 1627, 1656, 1660), Man and Wife (1627), Child with Nurse, Toper (1630), Hille Bobbe van Haarlem (about 1650), Berlin Museum; Nobleman and Wife (1620), Two Boys making Music (1625), Toper (1640), Male Portraits (3, 1655, 1660), Laughing Girl, Cassel Gallery; Male Portraits (2, 1630), Dresden Gallery; do. (1635, 1655), Gotha Museum; Young Man (1624), Man and Wife (1638), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Boy playing the Flute (1625), Königsberg Museum; do., and Boy Drinking, Male Portrait (1630), Schwerin Gallery; Man and Wife (1643), Stettin Museum; Male Portrait (1650), Museum, Vienna; do. (2, 1630, 1644), Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; do. (1655), Old Lady (1638), Baron Rothschild, ib.; Male Portrait (1650), National Gallery, Pesth; do. (4, 1635, 1650, 1660), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Old Woman's Head (1645), National Gallery, London; do. (1640), Bridgewater Gallery, ib.; Male Portrait (1630), Buckingham Palace, ib.; do. (1624), Manchester House, ib.; do. (1635), Marquis of Bute, ib.; Artist's Portrait (1622), Devonshire House, ib.; Herring Seller (1616), Lord Northbrook, ib.; Male Portrait (1628), Hampton Court Palace; Hille Bobbe (?, probably by Frans, the younger), Meeting of Trained Bands to celebrate Peace of Münster (with Dirk Hals), Metropolitan Museum, New York; Portrait (?), Historical Society, ib.; other pictures attributed to him in the galleries of Munich, Stuttgart, Brunswick, Weimar, Oldenburg, etc., are not by him. Of his seven sons five were painters: Herman (1611-69), painted conversation pieces; Johannes (died in 1650), figures and genre scenes; Frans (see following article); Regnier (1627-89), genre scenes; Nicolaas (born in 1628), genre and landscape.—Allgem. d. Biogr., x. 451; Ch.